SPICE is a very small PHP framework build for people who can usually want to use MVC(Model-View-Controller) design pattern. This framework can perform better in LAMP(Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack. The goal of SPICE is to be as simple as possible to install and use.
- PHP 5.1 or Upper
- MySQL 4 or Upper
- Apache
mod_rewriteenabled
Click ot download the latest version of SPICE. You can also FORK or close the GIT repository by running
$ git clone https://github.com/tanveer-noman/spice.git
A demo project 'addressbook' is written using this SPICE framework to see it in a practically.
- Download the zip file.
- Extract it to your web root directory.
- Now, go to phpmyadmin and create a database named
spice; - Now import the
sql/spice.sqlfile to the database. - Go to system/config file. You need to set base url like
http://localhost/spice/or what you might feet. - Now set the database host. Usually it's
localhost, database name isspiceor the name you have created, the user is the database user name and set the password.
Your done!
Go to browser and visit http://localhost/spice/ or whatever you set the name.
SPICE is fully tracked by the MVC design pattern. Here is details how the pattern can work
Model represents the data structures and usually the business logic that retrieve, insert, and update the data in the database.
View is the presentation layer. User can see that is being represented to them. We can call it as a page or web page.
Controller is the control section that can communicate with your business logic that is written in the model and sent the data to the presentation layer that user can view as a page.
SPICE is very simple in nature. All application related files need to store in the app folder and all the system related files are set in system. Inside the application folder there are folders for all of the specific application entities.
- app
- controllers
- helpers
- models
- views
- public
- css
- images
- js
- system
To make it simple SPICE is free to make your own structure but it's important to use BASE_URL gobal variable to include files in the HTML. Like:
// example of adding CSS file
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo BASE_URL; ?>public/css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />SPICE is very handy to create SEO friendly URLs and it's designed to force you to use that. So SPICE uses a segment-based approach:
doamin.com/className/functionName/parameters
SPICE is designed to encourage Upper Camel Case for example:
ThisIsAnExample
In model this very simple to load data and return it to controller
// exmaple of a model class
class Address_model extends Model {
//Get all address
public function getAllAddress($id = null){
if($id != null){
$result = $this->query('SELECT * FROM `addresses`
WHERE id ='.$this->escapeString($id));
return $result;
}
}
}Now in controller you need to use like this:
//example of a controller class
class Address extends Controller {
function index() {
$template = $this->loadView('view_address');
$cities = $this->loadModel('Address_model');
$data = $cities->getAllAddress();
$template->set('addresses', $data);
$template->render();
}
}SPICE is very handy to load model and view by calling these functions and can be able to take the parameter $name of the corresponding class:
- loadModel($name) - Load a model
- loadView($name) - Load a view
- loadHelper($name) - Load a helper
- redirect($location) - Redirect to a page without having to include the base
For example:
//example of a controller class
class Address extends Controller {
function index() {
$template = $this->loadView('view_address');
$cities = $this->loadModel('Address_model');
$data = $cities->getAllAddress();
$template->set('addresses', $data);
$template->render();
}
}To redired SPICE also allowe
//example to redirect
$this->redirect('className'); // auto load index function
//Or,
$this->redirect('className/functionName');View is a web page or page that represent the data to the end user. It can hold HTML and PHP code
//example of a header.php file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Address Book | Community Edition</title>
<meta name="description" content="personal address book">
<meta name="author" content="tanveer.noman@gmail.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo BASE_URL; ?>public/css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>In addition you can load $variable from controller and fetch it
//example of a view.php file
<div id="content">
<p>List of my personal address</p>
<?php if(!empty($addresses)):?>
<div>
<table class="address">
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Street</th>
<th>Zip</th>
<th>City</th>
<th>Options</th>
</tr>
<?php foreach($addresses as $address){?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $address->first_name;?></td>
<td><?php echo $address->last_name;?></td>
<td><?php echo $address->street;?></td>
<td><?php echo $address->zip;?></td>
<td><?php echo $address->city;?></td>
<td>
<a href="<?php echo BASE_URL.'address/edit/'.$address->id;?>">Edit</a>
<a href="<?php echo BASE_URL.'address/delete/'.$address->id;?>">Delete</a>
</td>
</tr>
<?php }?>
</table>
</div>
<?php endif;?>
</div>- Tanveer Noman is inspired from PIP framework
- SPICE installer to install the freamework
v1.0 - Initial version